Francisco Sionil Jose was born on December 4, 1924 in Rosales. ... In 1962 he published his first novel The Pretenders. ...
In the five-novel masterpiece, the Rosales saga, consisting of The Pretenders, Tree, My Brother, My Executioner, Mass, and Po-on, he captures the sweep of Philippine history while simultaneously narrating the lives of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives intertwine with the social struggles of the nation. Po-on is the first novel in the Rosales Saga which includes Tree; My Brother, My Executioner; The Pretenders and Mass. ...
F. Sionil Jose’s Po-on depicts many of the Philippines’ social problems. ... However, his faith in God and Padre Jose’s pronouncements that much of the suffering in the world is man’s own doing develops in him the conviction that “evil is often a creation of our minds and if we do not think about it, if we do not let it bother us, it will not be there.
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